Three folksingers

 Here are three folk singers I admire. They were at the top of their form in the 50s and 60s.

Doc Watson is a legendary guitar picker and fine singer. He uses both a flat pick and the two-finger picking style called Travis style. He named his son after Merle Travis. I saw a lot of Travis on an afternoon country variety show on TV in the 50s.

https://youtu.be/6mh_PuYjBjc?si=LeYnBdY-RTzjXX41

Peggy Seeger was singing about equality for women two decades before the woman's movement. Talk about being ahead of the curve! Maybe she was inspired by her half-brother Pete Seeger. Or was it the other way around?

https://youtu.be/m1gf7JENZHI?si=E_3k10wAWcyqzZM8

Barbara Dane had a fascinating career. Like Ramblin' Jack Elliott, she peaked before folk music became popular here. Then she was virtually blacklisted for her political views. Later she reinvented herself as a jazz singer but was never widely known or appreciated.

Her folk period:

https://youtu.be/efZ3VmoYnOI?si=IhLKvxLOajZCRjMZ

Her jazz period:

https://youtu.be/vFHWiS6_fdw?si=1Lki9RHCDZM-G1Hd

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